Types of language features
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Onomatopoeia |
Onomatopoeia is when it sounds like the word, for example bang.
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Metaphor |
A metaphor is saying something is something else.
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Alliteration |
The poet used alliteration to describe the beautiful butterflies.
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Simile |
A parallel example used to illustrate a point; operates rather like an extended simile.
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sense |
None of this make sense to me.
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Imagery |
A writer's style is their characteristic way of writing e.g. choice of words, structure and imagery.
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Vivid |
Do all novelists need a vivid imagination?
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Emotive |
Emotive language is language used to create emotion in the reader.
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Personification |
Giving an object human qualities is personification - 'a strong wind menaced the trees'.
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